The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-04-30
USEFUL INFORMATION.

We take the following from advance sheets of
the American Agriculturist for May:
La,ons and EUergreens Sin making new lawn,
the first point is the proper preparation OF the SOIL
1t should be thoroughly and deeply titled, with an
abundance of. well composted manure worked into
it. Then four or six bushels of seed to the
acre. In making a new lawn, it is well toslay an
edge of turf along the paths or roads, and along
the beds that are to be made in the lawn......H
paths or walks are to be made, whatever the ma
terial, secure good foundation by excavating and
filling in broken stone to make solid bottom
This is the month usually preferred for transplant
ting evergreens The essential point is to prevent
the roots from drying. From the minute they are
taken from the soil to the time when they go into
it again, the roots must not dry. Shelter them
from the sun and air, and, if possible. keep them
wet.
BroiLed IShad.-There is no article of food that
is so easily and completely ruined by ignorance
on the part of the cook as fish. A male shad is
always superior. If you are fond of the roes buy
them separately. The first essential is that the
fish should be fresh if the eyes clear the gills
red, and the fins stiff, you are sale in purchasing
Use double gridiron, heat it and rub the bars
with bit of suet before laying on the fish, BrOil
them ten or fifteen minutes according to the siZe
If you turn the fish frequently 1t need not be
scorched in the least. 1t is done when the bone
will lift readily from the flesh. OF course shad
must be split down Jne Dack lOr DrOlllnS. Fry Jne
melt and mash it with a teaspOonful of butter,
teaspoonful each of lemon juice and chopped par
sey, and salt and pepper to taste. Raise the bone
of the thick half of the fish, and spread half of the
sauce over the fish, replacing the bone; spread the
remaining sauce over the thinner half and place
in the oven for a moment. Asparagus, in season,
is always the proper accompaniment of shad.
Money in Breeding Good Horses.-The best
A. LII Co. E,,hF hrad int
United States; indeed, it may be said that this
country yields better class of horses for all work
than does any other on the globe; but, beyond all
question, road horses are signally superior to
those of any other land. There is money, good,
substantial money, nor that in small quantity, in
breeding horses we'll, with fixed end in view.
Every farmer has, or may have, good mare; it
may be not one of great intrinsic value but mare
of good points, we'll spirited, good on the road,
we'll modelled as a dam, with room to carry and
ability to nourish her foal. This mare is capable
of doing good service in breeding, equally with
that she renders in other labOrs for her owner.
The farmers aim should be the production of the
best fOa possible, because it costs no more to raise
good than poor colt, and there is no economy
in using cheap convenient stallion, when
frst-class one, of fit bloodlines and high quality,
can be had for little extra trouble and little
more money. Let our readers estimate the value
of care in breeding by considering the prices which
good stock brings, even when young, and the con-
dtion of the markets in cities and large towns,
where good, well-looking horses, having good ac-
ton style andJ ffat pays to breed we'll
There is no use in trying to breed valuable stock,
il si,s sire is selected at hap hazard; breeding IS
a science, and there can be no sure outcome from
either its study application, unless the progeni
tor of the stock shall have been thoroughly bred.
1t is we'll to use we'll bred mare, whenever this
is possible; but strongly bred sire will unfail-
ingly improve upon the most ordinarily bred dam,
will more than make good her Deficiencies, and
compensate for the investment.
Fair Bird Destroyers.-That tickle, changeable,
fantastic, and often nonsensical goddess, Fashion,
and her fair votaries, answerabe in part for
the destruction OF the birds, and particularly of
those adorned with brilliant plumage. Many a
fair maiden, or woman, tender hearted, consider
ate and sympathetic, who would be shocked by the
wanton cruelty of the thOughtless boy who would
kill the beautiful little humming bird as it fits
from flower to flower is quite reconcled to the act
if the dead bird be treated by the taxidermist
and added to the aviary upon the curious structure
which is now worn in the place of the bonnet
which adorned and protected the head OF her
mother and grandmothers of different degrees, TOR
generations Questionable as is the taste that
places a yellow eyed screech owl, vampirish
bat, upon a lady's head gear, it is well-known
fact that thousands and tens OF thousands OF our
much -prized birds become sacrifice to fashion In
each year. 1t is gratifying to learn that the Au-
dubon Society, whose members pledge themselves
to do all in their power to discourage, and ifpos-
sble, suppress the of birds and birds feathers
as ornaments of dress, is rapidly extending its
sphere of usefulness and humanity. 1t would be
well if in every city, town and school district In
the United States the girls and boys would organ
ze society or club having for its object the pro-
lection of our harmless, beautiful and musical
birds. The girls, by refraining from the use of
birds, or the plumage of birds for ornament; and
the boys, by ceasing to stone shoot, or trap such
birds or to rob their nests of eggs, or young, and
by waging a war of determination against the
sparrows, can do much towards restoring to us the
birds whose absence and loss is so much to be de-
plored.